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Instruction offered by members of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Schulich School of Engineering.
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Electrical Engineering
601
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Advanced Power System Analysis
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Energy transfer in power systems; real and reactive power flows; VAR compensation. Power system control, interconnected operation. Power system stability, techniques of numerical integration. Load representation, power quality. Computational paradigms for typical power system problems. Computer simulation of representative power system problems.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 487 or consent of the Department.
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Electrical Engineering
602
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Virtual Environments and Applications
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Introduction to virtual reality (VR) technologies; Characterization of virtual environments; hardware and software; user interfaces; 3D interaction; research trends. Applications: medicine, manufacturing, oil and gas reservoirs, the arts, and education.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-1)
Also known as:
(formerly Software Engineering for Engineers 619.71)
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Electrical Engineering
603
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Rotating Machines
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General theory of rotating machines providing a unified approach to the analysis of machine performance. General equations of induced voltage and torque. Transient performance of machines.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
604
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System Design of Wireless Transceivers
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Linear and nonlinear system analysis. Radio architectures – super-heterodyne, low intermediate frequency, direct conversion, sub-sampling; receiver system analysis and design; transmitter system analysis and design. Applications of transceiver system design to satellite and wireless communications.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-1)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 327 and 471.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 604 and 619.38 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
606
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Optical Instrumentation
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Review of ray and wave optics. Free-space and fiber optic components. Linear, non-linear, and super-resolution microscopy. Light measurement and characterization. Digital imaging. Solid state light sources. Spectroscopy.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 606 and 619.68 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
609
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Special Topics
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Designed to provide graduate students, especially at the PhD level, with the opportunity of pursuing advanced studies in particular areas under the direction of a faculty member.
Course Hours:
1.5 units; Q(3-1)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Electrical Engineering
611
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Digital Systems
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Introduction to digital system design for mask programmable and field programmable gate arrays. CMOS digital logic design. Flip-flop timing and metastability. Design for testability. CAD tools for digital systems design.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
613
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Nonlinear Microwave Engineering
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Theory, design and optimization of RF power amplification systems for wireless and satellite communication applications. The course provides a detailed treatment of linear and non-linear characterization and modelling of amplifiers/transmitters from device to system level perspective. Theory of operation as well as design techniques of linear amplifiers (class A, AB, B, C), switching mode amplifiers (class E, D and F) and balanced amplifiers are presented. Linearization and power efficiency enhancements techniques of power amplifiers/transmitters are also covered.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 574 or consent of the Department.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 613 and 619.22 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
615
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Non-linear Control
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Non-linear systems; phase portraits, equilibrium points, and existence of solutions. Lyapunov stability definitions and theorems. Non-linear control design; feedback linearization, sliding modes, adaptive control, backstepping, and approximate-adaptive control. Frequency domain stability analysis using describing functions.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.16)
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Electrical Engineering
617
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RF Integrated Circuit Design
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Introduction to complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) wireless communication circuits; computer-aided design; impedance matching concepts; passive circuit elements in monolithic circuits; radio frequency integrated circuit building blocks.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 567 or 647.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 617 and 619.31 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
619
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Special Problems
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Designed to provide graduate students, especially at the PhD level, with the opportunity of pursuing advanced studies in particular areas under the direction of a faculty member.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-1) or H(3.0)
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
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Electrical Engineering
623
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Biomedical Systems and Applications
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Introduction to biomedical systems. The four elements of a biomedical monitoring system. Biomedical system modelling. Biomedical sensors: basic concepts. Biomedical amplifiers and signal conditioning circuits. Noise, noise sources and non-idealities. Repeatability of measurements. Power supplies for biomedical monitoring systems. Frequency conditioning. Isolation amplifiers and patient safety. Analog-to-Digital conversion and anti-aliasing requirements. Multichannel biomedical data acquisition. Real-time requirements. Real-time digital conditioning of biomedical signals. The concept of closed-loop real-time control.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-1)
Prerequisite(s):
Consent of the Department.
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Electrical Engineering
625
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Estimation Theory
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Fundamentals of estimation theory as applied to general statistical signal processing applications such as communication systems, image processing, target and position tracking, and machine learning. Estimator fundamentals including probability density functions, Cramer Rao bounds, Fisher information, linear and nonlinear regression, sufficient statistics, maximum likelihood estimation, minimum mean square error, least squares, Bayesian estimators and concepts. Statistical tracking filters such as Kalman filter and particle filter.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
627
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Antennas
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Foundations of theory and practice of modern antennas. Topics covered will include: theoretical background, antenna parameters, simple radiators, antenna array theory, wire antennas, broadband antennas, microstrip antennas, aperture radiators, base station antennas, antennas for mobile communications, antenna measurements.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Notes:
Students registering in this course should have a background in electromagnetics and basic microwave engineering.
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Electrical Engineering
629
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Advanced Logic Design of Electronic and Nanoelectronic Devices
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Two-level and multi-level logic synthesis; flexibility in logic design; multiple-valued logic for advanced technology; multi-level minimization; Binary Decision Diagrams, Word-level Decision Diagrams, sequential and combinational equivalence checking; technology mapping; technology-based transformations; logic synthesis for low power, optimizations of synchronous and asynchronous circuits, logical and physical design from a flow perspective; challenges of design of nanoelectronic devices.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
631
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System Identification and Parameter Estimation
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Parametric models of linear time-invariant systems. System and noise models. Estimation of model parameters. Structure and order selection. Model validation. Convergence and sensitivity analysis. Experiment design. MIMO systems. Subspace methods. Introduction to non-linear and/or time-varying systems.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 649.
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Electrical Engineering
633
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Wireless Networks
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Wireless networks’ architectures and standards. Wireless communication protocols including network access control protocols, routing, congestion and flow control protocols, mobility and resource management protocols. Modelling and analysis of wireless network performance. Current and future research challenges in wireless networks.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Notes:
A senior undergraduate course in wireless communications is suggested as preparation for this course.
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Electrical Engineering
635
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Cryptography and Number Theory with Applications
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The topic of the course is to provide the students with vital information about the use of number theory in designing and implementing various public key cryptographic schemes.Ìý We will stress on the efficacy of the algorithms used and their application in areas outside cryptography and coding theory.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 635 and 619.87 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
637
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Arithmetic Techniques with DSP Applications
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The course is aimed at the use of specific computer arithmetic techniques for efficient design of DSP algorithms. We will provide comprehensive information form the theory of computer arithmetic. We will show how the performance of different algorithms can be optimized by using efficient arithmetic techniques. Many examples will be provided.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 637 and 619.88 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
641
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Optimization for Engineers
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Introduction to optimization techniques for solving engineering problems. Modelling engineering problems as optimization problems. Recognizing and solving convex sets, functions and optimization problems. Unconstrained optimization methodology and engineering applications. Constrained optimization techniques and engineering applications. Special topics in optimization such as multi-objective optimization and geometric programming.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 641 and 619.05 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
645
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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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Types of data mining: classification, clustering, association, prediction. Processes: data preparation, model building. Techniques: decision tree, neural network, evolutionary computing, Bayesian network. Applications: multi-media, text and web mining.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.51)
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Electrical Engineering
647
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Analog Integrated Circuit Design
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Review of static and dynamic models of bipolar and field effect transistors. Basics of analog integrated circuit design. Computer-aided modelling. Fabrication processes and their influence on analog design. Operational voltage amplifier and transconductance amplifier design techniques. Case studies of bipolar and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) designs. CMOS analog integrated circuit design project.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
649
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Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
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Axiomatic view of probability; continuous and discrete random variables; expectation; functions of random variables; conditional distributions and expectations; stochastic processes; stationarity and ergodicity; correlation and power spectrum; renewal processes and Markov chains; Markov and non-Markovian processes in continuous time.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.22)
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Electrical Engineering
651
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Resource Management for Wireless Networks
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Qualitative and mathematical formulation of the resource management problem in wireless networks; elements of radio resource management: power and Walsh code allocation and control. Call admission control, traffic load control, packet scheduling; radio resource management algorithms: fixed resource allocation, handover resource management, transmitter power management, dynamic resource allocation, and packet scheduling algorithms; quality-of-service (QoS) and resource management; joint radio resource management problem across heterogeneous wireless networks; applications and case studies: resource management in third generation (3G) and beyond 3G wireless Internet Protocol (IP) networks; open research challenges in resource management for wireless networks.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.04)
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Electrical Engineering
653
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Theory and Practice Advanced DSP Processor Architecture
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Architecture and capabilities of SISD, SIMD and VLIW processors; Developing high speed algorithms: code timing, reliability, background DMA activity, maintainability; Developing a personal software process appropriate for embedded systems.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-1T-3/2)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.23)
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Electrical Engineering
657
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Detection of Signals in Noise
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Detection of distorted and noise corrupted deterministic and random signals. Application to optimum statistical signal processing algorithms in data communications, GPS, radar, synchronization and image processing.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
At least one of Electrical Engineering 675, 649, or 625 or consent of the Department.
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Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.73)
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Electrical Engineering
659
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Active-RC and Switched-Capacitor Filter Design
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The filter design problem; operational amplifier characteristics; cascade methods of RC-active filter design; filter design with the active biquad; active filter design based on a lossless ladder prototype. Switched-capacitor (SC) integrators; design of cascade, ladder, and multiple feedback SC filters; non-ideal effects in SC filters; scaling of SC filters; topics in fabrication of SC filters.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
661
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Grid-Connected Inverters for Alternative Energy Systems
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Analysis and design of grid-connected inverters fed by an alternative energy source. Switch mode converters, inverter topologies, harmonics, drive electronics, control methodologies, implementation techniques, course project.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.18)
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Electrical Engineering
663
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Numerical Electromagnetic Field Computation
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Solution techniques for electromagnetic fields: finite difference, finite elements/volumes, boundary elements, finite difference time domain, and moment methods. Practical aspects concerning computer implementation: accuracy, speed, memory, and solvers.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.09)
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Electrical Engineering
665
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Bioelectromagnetism
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Generation, transmission, and measurement of electromagnetic events generated by excitable cells (heart, brain, muscle). Topics cover the scale from membrane and cell dynamics to tissue behaviour and body surface recordings.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.21)
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Electrical Engineering
667
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Intelligent Control
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Application of machine learning algorithms in control systems: neural networks, fuzzy logic, the cerebellar model arithmetic computer, genetic algorithms; stability of learning algorithms in closed-loop non-linear control applications.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
At least one undergraduate level course in control systems.
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.25)
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Electrical Engineering
669
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Renewable Energy and Solid State Lighting for the Developing World
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History of Lighting, Illumination Measurements and Standards - Incandescent, Fluorescent, LEDs and OLEDs. Generation using Hydro, Solar, Photovoltaic, Wind, Thermoelectric, Biomass, Thermal. Energy Storage and Supply Chains. System Design, Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment. Kyoto Protocol, Carbon Credits and Trading.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.52)
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Electrical Engineering
671
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Adaptive Signal Processing
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Fundamentals: Performance objectives, optimal filtering and estimation, the Wiener solution, orthogonality principle. Adaptation algorithms: MSE performance surface, gradient search methods, the Widrow-Hoff LMS algorithm, convergence speed and misadjustment. Advanced techniques: recursive least-squares algorithms, gradient and least-squares multiple filter, frequency domain algorithms, adaptive pole-zero filters. Applications: system identification, channel equalization, echo cancellation, linear prediction, noise cancellation, speech.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
673
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Wireless Communications Engineering
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The basics of mobile radio telephone: mobile telephone frequency channels, components of mobile radio, objectives of mobile telephone systems, major problems and tools available. The mobile radio environment: fading and propagation loss, propagation loss prediction, channel and signal models, fading statistics, classification of fading channels. Methods of reducing fading effects: diversity techniques and diversity combining methods. Signaling over fading channels. Frequency reuse schemes: cellular concept, mobile radio interference, FDMA, TDMA, and spread spectrum techniques. Portable systems, air-to-ground systems, and land mobile/satellite systems, processing.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 571.
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Electrical Engineering
675
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Digital Communications
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Physical layer digital communications. Linear modulation and demodulation using signal space concepts. Optimal and sub-optimal detection of symbols and sequences. Pulse shaping and spectral analysis. Wireless propagation and system design. Error correction using channel codes. Advanced techniques for high speed communications.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 571.
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Electrical Engineering
683
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Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation
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Aspects of physical design including: VLSI design cycle, fabrication processes for VLSI devices, basic data structures and algorithms, partitioning, floor planning, placement and routing.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Also known as:
(formerly Electrical Engineering 619.19)
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Electrical Engineering
685
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Software Defined Radio Systems
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Advanced design aspects related to the design of Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems applicable to wireless and satellite communication systems. System level modelling and baseband design aspects of SDR systems. Transmitter and receiver architectures appropriate for SDR transceivers. Multi-band transmitters, sub-sampling receivers and six-port based receivers. Design strategies and calibration techniques for SDR systems.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-1)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 574 or consent of the Department.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 641 and 619.64 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
687
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Switch Mode Power Converters
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Design and analysis of dc-to-dc and ac-to-ac single-phase power converters. Device characteristics. Dc-to-dc topologies, dc-to-ac topologies and ac-to-ac topologies. Linearized models. Classical feedback control; introduction to state-space analysis methods. Input harmonic analysis, output harmonic analysis, and techniques to obtain unity input power factory.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
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Electrical Engineering
691
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Integrated Micro and Nanotechnology Sensory Systems
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Integrated circuits for sensing. The physical process of sensing photons and ions. The circuitry of signal amplification. Considerations for integrated circuit implementation. Solid state sensors and development in CMOS technology. Analog to Digital conversion in sensory arrays. Technology scaling and impact. Low voltage and implications regarding signal processing. Other types of sensors such as pH sensing. MEMS technology and applications. Integrated Light sources. System examples.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 691 and 619.26 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
693
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Restructured Electricity Markets
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Basics of power systems economics, vertically integrated power monopolies, models of competition, market design and auction mechanisms, players in restructured electricity markets, generation scheduling in restructured electricity markets, perspective of large consumers, transmission operation in competitive power markets, transmission rights, the need for ancillary services in electricity markets, procurement and pricing of ancillary services, transmission and generation expansion in competitive markets.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 587 or 601 or consent of the Department.
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Electrical Engineering
695
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Applied Mathematics for Electrical Engineers
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Understanding of vector spaces and function spaces; eigenvalues and eigenvectors in both the linear algebraic and differential equation sense; special functions in mathematics; advanced methods for solutions of differential equations.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-1T)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 327.
Antirequisite(s):
Credit for Electrical Engineering 695 and either 519.42 or 619.95 will not be allowed.
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Electrical Engineering
697
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Digital Image Processing
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Image formation and visual perceptual processing. Digital image representation. Two dimensional Fourier transform analysis. Image enhancement and restoration. Selected topics from: image reconstruction from projections; image segmentation and analysis; image coding for data compression and transmission; introduction to image understanding and computer vision. Case studies from current applications and research.
Course Hours:
3 units; H(3-2)
Prerequisite(s):
Electrical Engineering 327.
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Electrical Engineering
698
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Graduate Project
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Individual project in the student's area of specialization under the guidance of the student's supervisor.
Course Hours:
6 units; F(0-4)
Notes:
Open only to students in the MEng Courses Only Route.
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